Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue on upper and lower sections, the central register with red, yellow, and aubergine enamels over incised decoration on biscuit porcelain

16th-17th centuryChinese

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Jade Deep Bowl with Flaring Lip

Unknown Artist, 1736-1795, Qianlong period

Pale grayish white nephrite; with mark on the base reading 'Qianlong Yu Zhi' in seal-script characters

18th centuryChinese

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Dish with Qur'anic Inscription

Unknown Artist, c. 1600

Copper

16th-17th centuryIndian

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Pyxis with Knobbed Lid

Unknown Artist, c. 850-800 BCE

Terracotta

9th century BCEGreek

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Calyx Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Woman at a Tree, with Dionysos and a Satyr; Woman with Eros and Two Satyrs

the LC Group, 350 BCE-320 BCE

Terracotta

4th century BCEGreek

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"Chimney" Lekythos (oil flask): Two Centaurs Smash Kaineus into the Earth

The Pholos Painter, c. 530 BCE

Terracotta

6th century BCEGreek

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Small Bowl with Indented Lip and Silver Oil-Spot Decoration

Unknown Artist, probably 12th century

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.

12th centuryChinese

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Ceremonial Stand and Round-Bottomed Jar with Abstract Decor, the Stand with Abstract and Openwork Decoration

Unknown Artist, mid 6th century

Kaya-type ware: gray stoneware with combed and openwork decoration and with considerable natural ash glaze. Reportedly recovered from the Tomb of the Generals in Yangji-ri, Hyŏnp'ung-myŏn, Talsŏng-gun, near Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang province in 1960.

6th centuryKorean